Nora Saks
News Reporter-
Beloved poet, performer, activist and Maine native Andrea Gibson died from cancer on July 14, at age 49. Gibson's vulnerable poetry about gender identity, queer politics, love, and death inspired fans to accept themselves and embrace life. -
Communities are starting to consider new tools to address the lack of affordable rental housing in Maine's midcoast. On Wednesday, Rockland's City Council opened the issue to the public by hosting a forum on rent stabilization. -
The recent elimination of the USDA’s Local Food Purchasing Assistance program is forcing immigrant farmers in Maine and the communities they feed to scramble, and to start cultivating their own grassroots solutions. -
The new advisories apply to game fish caught in Lovejoy Pond in Albion, the Sebasticook River in Burnham and Benton, Collyer Brook in Gray, and Androscoggin Lake in Leeds and Wayne. -
More than three weeks into a computer and phone system outage at Central Maine Healthcare, patients say they're still having a hard time reaching their doctors, accessing medical records, getting prescriptions refilled and scheduling appointments.
